You seem to be making fun of me! If I give way on such important points on the day of our marriage, whither will you lead me?
No; no! You are my wife.

The wife must follow her husband; the law says so!" "Is it by law only that you wish to keep me?
Have you forgotten what I told you when you made me an offer of marriage?
It is my hand only which I give you." "And I answered you, that it would be my aim to gain your heart.

Well, but give me the means.

Come, dear," said the banker in a resolute tone, "you take me for a child.

I am not so simple as that! I know what this resistance means; charming modesty so long as it is not everlasting." Jeanne turned away without answering.